Jason and Cici, together again... Jason and Cici, together again. A retired Army sergeant who was a handler for Cici, the bomb-sniffing Army dog, are reunited – and Cici's last years will be at home with her buddy. I never tire of these videos...

Liberal Maryland rejoices – because some other state is so business-hostile that it might drive some to consider relocating to not-quite-so-business-hostile Maryland. More likely, Texas will get the fleeing entrepreneurs, though...

Have they not eyes to see with?This self-proclaimed progressive does. Perhaps the cruelest aspect of modern progressivism is that its anti-capitalism stance dooms millions of people to short lives and abject poverty. Caleb Rossiter wants nothing to do with that...

The trees are gone... The big trees planted right next to the house, that is. Debbie and I took the last one – the biggest – down yesterday afternoon. Its trunk was roughly oval at the bottom, 14" by 11", so there was quite a bit of wood in it. I sure was glad to have a chainsaw for that one :) After we cut it all up and loaded it onto my pickup, we had a pile of debris occupying roughly 3 cubic yards, quite compressed – more than the other two trees combined...

This changed the appearance of the front of the house considerably. It also opened up several south-facing windows, so the house should be considerably brighter now on a fine day...